After Dan previously announced that he’d be open sourcing and no longer be selling the 3DORGB kit, a few stores said they’d look into keeping the project alive. Projects like this are very challenging to stock, as the flex cables can be tricky to produce and the mod itself is a bit complicated to perform. […]
A new Wonder Boy game was just announced, called Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World. It’s release is planned for early 2021, on both the PS4 and Switch: https://wonderboy.inin.games/ The game is essentially the next in series after 1994’s Wonder Boy IV and it appears the original team is coming back to make it: The […]
I just did an interview with Jim, aka KidShoryuken. We have a bunch of mutual friends and his name was constantly coming up, so I wanted to both get to know him and introduce him to you all as well. While most of our chat was just a laid back conversion, his insight into Japanese […]
Vectrexmuli.com has opened pre-orders for a complete set of reproduction overlays, containing one for each of the official 28 games. They’re not cheap at $225, but aim to match the exact quality and texture of the originals, including the paper sleeve. Overlays for unofficial releases such as Dark Tower, Pitcher’s Duel and Tour De France […]
Strictly Limited Games has just opened sales on complete-in-box versions of the Turrican games, including Switch, PS4, SNES and Genesis versions in all regions: https://store.strictlylimitedgames.com/collections/turrican Classic console cartridge releases are about $60 each, with Super Turrican and Super Turrican 2 available for the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom and Mega Turrican available for the Genesis […]
Jeremy Parish just posted a short, but amazing interview with Koji Igarashi, the creator of some of the most beloved games in the Castlevania series. The interview added an interesting perspective to games like Symphony Of The Night, as they discussed how the original Legend Of Zelda…and most especially A Link To The Past was […]
The company MakeMHz has just announced a true digital-to-digital HDMI mod for the original Xbox. This is a no-cut mod that replaces the analog output port with an HDMI jack. Audio is 100% digital as well, making this the cleanest output solution currently available for the Xbox. Pre-orders are open now for an introductory price of […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-08-26_216.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute: Please consider signing up as a supporter! Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal / https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb T-Shirts: https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All equipment used […]
Looks like 2020 has claimed another victim. According to Mark S. with The Video Store Shopper (aka Media Shelving), the Universal Game Case has officially been discontinued. The Universal Game Case was the go to case for a long time for systems such as SNES, N64, Genesis, Famicom, 32x, CDs. They could fit NES games […]
Steve of RetroTechUSA recently released a follow up video going over the basics of purchasing capacitors and what Do It Yourselfers (D.I.Y.) should know when buying capacitors. His previous video covered the process of creating your own “cap” kit list based on the specific manufactures data sheets per CRT models. However for this video Retro […]
